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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by bmaeser on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:52PM (#6042790)
a couple of years ago i started signing my emails.

unfortunately a lot of my mails got deleted by the recipients, because there were "some very strange things" (the signature) at the end of my mails and they were afraid of malware like viruses or trojans.

i wanted to increase the level of trust in my messages and achieved the complete opposite.

i stopped signing my mails a couple of weeks later, after a clients secretary phoned me to inform me "i had a virus on my computer".

Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by prawn on Sunday July 14, 2013 @11:06PM (#6043459)
Reminds me of the time I emailed a HN discussion to a friend in an adjacent room in the office. She hit the link and then closed it in a panic as soon as she noticed the word "Hacker" in the tab title.
Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by mtpettyp on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:09PM (#6042861)
Isn't this the problem that DKIM is supposed to solve?
Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by mfincham on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:16PM (#6042883)
Not really...

If you don't want to confuse people when you sign your e-mail, make sure you're using PGP/MIME not inline signing. I've been signing my mail for years and had almost zero problems doing this.

Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by jlgaddis on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:03AM (#6044119)
You didn't have anyone asking about the weird attachments on your e-mails that they couldn't open?